Quotes by Ida Tarbell

Ida Tarbell

… the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

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Sobriety

[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.

Care

Competition

John D Rockefeller

[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses! – an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.

Business

Christian

Fall

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

Intellectual

Media

Mind

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

Lays

Mind

Subjects

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

Disturbance

Long

Rebellion

Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.

Business

Money

Want

How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.

Children

Sleep

Work

I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.

Afterlife

Effort

Mind

I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.

Book

Eye

Writing

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Believe

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Business

Buying In

Care

Chance

Character

Cheerful

Children

Christian

Circles

Class

Competition

Consumerism

Country

Cutting

Data

Democratic Ideals

Depressing

Discipline

Disturbance

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Effort

Equality

Essentials

Evil

Eye

Fall

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Figures

Future

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Quotes by Ida Tarbell

Ida Tarbell

… the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.

A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.

I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.

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